Ambient AI allows users to record live sessions, and process the transcription using Comprehension Engine®.
To use Ambient AI:
Navigate to the Ambient AI tab.
The Ambient AI page will look like this:
Note: Some buttons will depend on whether your templates link to Clinical Systems
1. Select your template
Select your template from the available templates.
The templates available to you will depend on your Team.
The template you select may have certain properties – it may be configured for conversations between different speakers, or be set to capture your audio Output
Begin your recording. You can start recording in any way you normally do, using:
The on-screen button on the application bar
The recording shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+Up)
Your recording hotkey, or
A supported device button (if recording long sessions, you may wish to ensure that your Record button preference is not set to Hold the button to record.)
When you are on the Ambient AI tab, the Echo control on your application bar will show the ✨ symbol to indicate that you are in Ambient AI mode.
Whilst recording, you will be locked on the Ambient AI tab – you will not be able to navigate to other tabs. Ambient AI will show this animation:
You may stop and start your recording as much as you like. When you have paused recording, you can start recording to add to the current session, or process the session you have recorded.
If you navigate away from the Ambient AI tab, your recordings with Echo will not be added to the current session. Navigate back to the Ambient AI tab to continue recording in that session.
Ambient AI requires a minimum amount of recording before Comprehension Engine® can process a session (approximately 50 words). If you have not recorded enough, Ambient AI will display this message:
3. Processing
Once you have finished recording and are ready to process, Ambient AI will show this message:
Click the Process Transcription button.
The formatted transcription will appear below, like this:
You can edit and amend this as you need.
4. Using your Transcription
Once you have processed your transcription, you can use this in many ways using the function buttons.
Copy
Copies the contents of the transcription to the clipboard. You can paste that wherever you need the transcription.
Email
Opens a new email in your default email client, with the transcription as the email body text.
Print
Opens a new Print window to print the transcription.
Clinical System
Some templates are formatted to return sections corresponding to consultation notes in your clinical system. Lexacom allows you to submit the results to your clinical system without the need to copy and paste these individually. In this case, you will see a button with the name of your clinical system, e.g.
Click on the button and select Add Consultation Notes to submit these details to your clinical system.
A window will appear showing the details to be submitted – confirm that these are correct, and then click Submit to submit these to the system.
5. Processing again
You may process your transcription any number of times with different session templates. Select the new session template, and click Process Transcription.
If you have made changes to the formatted transcription, these will not be retained when reprocessing.
You can record addtional transcription to your current session, and process again, as many times as required.
3. Completion
Once you have completed your session, ensure that any formatted transcriptions have been copied and saved.
Click the Clear button to clear your current session. Note: this action cannot be undone. Original or processed transcription is not retained once you have cleared the session.
You may then begin recording another session, work on workflow jobs, or use Echo Live to record transcription into other applications.
Original Transcription
If required, you can view the original, unformatted transcription that has been recorded. Click the Show Original switch to show this.
You can edit this – for example, to correct a spelling or transcription error. These changes will be retained and apply each time you process the transcription.
Note: If you erase the original transcription, this cannot be undone.
Note
If you have a job open and begin recording, your recording will be appended to the audio dictation on the open job. This audio will not be processed by Ambient AI.
